I tried to sort carbon credits into boxes and failed

<p>If we created an objectively correct and exhaustive categorization of carbon credits, would it solve everything? Would it solve anything?</p><p><a href="https://www.rosskenyon.com/p/the-impossible-taxonomy" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Listen in as I read an essay I recently wrote</a> about the endless quest to perfectly categorize the world, and while that may be a useful project for some purposes, it isn't anywhere close to the main reasons the world looks the way that it does.</p><p>Listen in and you'll get surrealist sculpture, Michael Polanyi, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Plato. Who can truly say no to an offer like that?</p><p><strong>This Episode's Sponsor</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.ecoengineers.us/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EcoEngineers</a>: a full-service advisory and consulting firm focused on carbon dioxide removal, decarbonization, and carbon markets.</p><p><a href="https://www.rosskenyon.com/p/how-to-hire-fire-and-get-max-value" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to the RCC episode I made with David LaGreca from EcoEngineers about how to choose, hire, and fire carbon market contractors.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.rosskenyon.com/p/which-story-is-carbon-dioxide-removal-97e" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to the RCC episode I made with Rudy Krehbiel, also of EcoEngineers, on which story carbon dioxide removal is actually in and what it costs to be inside the wrong one.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.ecoengineers.us/ecoforums/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2026 EcoForums Training Series: Navigating Global Carbon and Fuel Regulations, Market Mechanisms, and Life-Cycle Analysis Fundamentals</a></p><p><strong>Resources</strong></p><p><a href="https://climateworkersanonymous.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<strong>⁠Check out my new show, </strong><em><strong>Climate Workers Anonymous</strong></em>⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/subscribe" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠<strong>Become a paid subscriber of </strong><em><strong>Reversing Climate Change</strong></em>⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><strong></strong><a href="https://www.rosskenyon.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<strong>⁠Subscribe to the </strong><em><strong>Reversi